Mediation-in-Depth Analysis - Video

Biography

Conjoint Professor Kim Lovegrove FAIB is Partner and Mediatior of Lovegrove Smith & Cotton Australia and New Zealand. He is a Conjoint Professor of Building Regulation at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales as well as being a Chartered Building Professional, and President Elect of the Northern Chapter of the New Zealand Institute of Building.

Principal legal adviser to the Victorian Government on the development and implementation of the Building Act Victoria 1993

Headed up the team that developed the National Model Building Act. The NMBA become the regulatory reform template for overhauling building regulation in Vic (Building Act), NT (Building Act) NSW (Part 4 of the EPAA). The NMBA also shaped the liability and private certification reforms in building regulation in Tasmania and SA.

Principal legal adviser to the NSW government on the Part 4 reforms to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act (late nineties)

Immediate past Chairman of the Building Practitioners Board (Victoria)

A past legal chair appointed by the Municipal Association of Victoria to preside over disciplinary matters concerning councillors and elected officials

Practices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Auckland, and provides advice to practitioner clients in Queensland

Past legal columnist for The Australian, Herald Sun and The Age

Past President of the Australian Institute of Building (Victorian Chapter)

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